Newly released 3D models of antiquities from the British Museum allow more digital access to ancient objects than ever before. Projects being developed by a small group of proactive digital ...

Early relatives of spiders that lived around 300 million years ago are revealed in new three-dimensional models. Previous studies of the fossilized remains of Cryptomartus hindi allowed scientists to ...

Visitors to an ancient chambered cairn in Galloway are being given the chance to see how it might have looked 6,000 years ago. An enormous pile of stones is all that remains of the structure built by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers used 3D scanning technology to reveal what they say is the largest collection of cave art drawings ever found in North ...

On a computer screen in a lab, a scattered cluster of stone flakes suddenly snaps together into a single, razor-edged tool, each fragment rotating and locking into place as if time is running in ...

Part of the ancient archaeological site of Tiwanaku, Bolivia, believed by Incans to be where the world was created has been reconstructed using 3D printed models of fragments of an ancient building.

The technique could prove a game-changer for digital preservation. Bas-relief depicting heads of female figures as seen on the exterior of the Buddhist temple of Borobudur, 8th-9th century. Photo: ...

On the most recent episode of Bones, a team of forensic anthropologists scanned and uploaded a skeleton to the cloud, so that another team could download and print the bones halfway around the world ...

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Have you ever visited an ancient ruin or site and wondered what it looked like to the eyes of people who were there hundreds or thousands of years ago? Well, now archaeologists are able to show off ...